798 District Blog

Zhang Huan is one of China’s best-known performance and conceptual artists. He is also known for his shocking and absurd photographs and images. For his solo show at the UCCA, Zhang Huan will exhibit remains of the train which crashed during the 5.12 Earthquake in Sichuan and stretch it over the whole Big Hall exhibition space.

“This exhibition is a way of showing the victims of the Sichuan earthquake that they haven’t been forgotten. It’s a curated social project, an artist and an institution working together to help solve a problem.

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Storm King Art Center has completed installation of Three Legged Buddha (2007), a colossal sculpture by the internationally celebrated chinese artist Zhang Huan. The work, which stands nearly twenty-eight feet high and weighs more than twelve tons, is a generous gift from Zhang Huan and The Pace Gallery. The gift was announced by Storm King in spring 2010, at a gala marking the launch of Storm King’s fiftieth-anniversary season.

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